Shanghai attractions on the map

Baodi's story will bring the personal cost of fear during the Cultural Revolution into the route.

Here, old city calculations remain in the clock faces, while a change of banks lies beneath the dome.

Here you will learn why merchants needed to remove the old boundary of the city and how one section of it escaped dismantling.

A department store will show how customer traffic was counted, retained, and turned into real estate.

This stop will show how a former canal was turned first into a road, and then into a sequence of carefully designed commercial eras.

The villa reveals a political choice made between family, health, and the new state.

The park makes it possible to see the war through an attempt to move and shelter animals.

Here, the theme of shared space runs up against the rules that separated taxpayers from the garden.

Here, the trading office of one industry becomes a public tea house, while a route across the water devised by merchants outlives their association.

The intersection will remind you that a commercial center and a shelter can stand beside a military target.

The finale will explain why the former racetrack was divided among the square, the park, and city institutions.

Here you will see how a childhood slip changed the city’s vocabulary and the appearance of a private house.

Here, the temple will be revealed as a parallel municipal service, with its own chief, seal, assistants, and archive.

The actor's house will show how refusing the stage became a way of not serving the occupation administration.

The study in the villa will explain how a military defeat led to the restructuring of a party and an army.

This stop explains why an open promenade without cargo piers was preserved in the center of the port.

This is where the walk’s central question emerges: who has the right to control a public passage, and on what grounds?

The district will show how the commercial waterfront gained a place for evening walks.

A home recording connects the famous facade with the personal history of its residents.

The finale will connect the secret meeting with the later fate of the shikumen themselves.

The finale will make it possible to distinguish the first owner's design, authentic stonework, and parts of the garden reconstructed from old records.

This stop connects the familiar tourist market with Shanghai’s first experience of restructuring trade through a joint-stock company.